Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

- Bernanos, Georges

Best Quotes about Faith

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Wooden, John

It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Gurdjieff, George

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Edwards, Tryon

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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Luther, Martin

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Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

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Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

Bible

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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

Bible

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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Moody, Dwight L.

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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.